The Weekly Praegustator (29 June - 5 July '26)

This week I consumed 18 manga, 9 anime, 3 films, 2 TV shows, 9 articles, and 2 podcasts.

29 June

Anime/ LIAR GAME Ep. 13 (7/10)

Article/ How to prepare for the next decade - by Scott Barker (6/10)

Article/ On AGI and sample-efficiency - by Lisan al Gaib (6/10)

30 June

Anime/ Eren the Southpaw Ep. 13 (8/10)

Anime/ MARRIAGETOXIN Ep. 13 (7/10)

Film/ Kwaidan (1964) (6/10)

The first two stories were fine but the last two fell flat.

1 July

Manga/ Blue Lock chapter 352 (7/10)

Manga/ Gachiakuta chapter 170 (7/10)

Manga/ Read Kusuriya No Hitorigoto Chapter 84 - 85 (7/10)

Manga/ Shangri-La Frontier chapter 271 (8/10)

Manga/ WIND BREAKER chapter 221 (7/10)

Film/ Ridiculous (TV Special 2026) (7/10)

TV/ X-Men '97: S02E01 (9/10)

Article/ Conscious or Not - KK (5/10)

Article/ Programmer Science Fiction - by Sam T. Oates (8/10)

Article/ So, I Slept With My TaskRabbit (7/10)

Article/ Why did you stop using me? (7/10)

2 July

Manga/ Onepunch Man Chapter 234

Anime/ The Ramparts of Ice Ep. 14 (7/10)

Podcast/ Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? (7/10)

3 July

Manga/ Ao No Exorcist Chapter 167 (7/10)

Manga/ Gokurakugai chapter 36 (7/10)

Manga/ Hunter X Hunter Chapter 412 (4/10)

Manga/ One Piece chapter 1187 (9/10)

Anime/ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Ep. 85 (7/10)

Anime/ The Drops of God Ep. 13 (9/10)

4 July

Article/ Aliveness and where to find it - by Ben James (8/10)

Article/ The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI (8/10)

5 July

Manga/ [#040] Someone Hertz (6/10)

Manga/ [#089] Ichi the Witch (6/10)

Manga/ [#096] Centuria (9/10)

Manga/ [#137] SPY x FAMILY (8/10)

Manga/ [#213] Akane-banashi (7/10)

Manga/ [#249] Blue Box (8/10)

Manga/ [#266] SAKAMOTO DAYS (8/10)

Manga/ [ex] The Elusive Samurai (7/10)

Anime/ Daemons of the Shadow Realm Ep. 13 (8/10)

Anime/ MAO Ep. 14 (8/10)

Anime/ Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Ep. 2 (9/10)

Film/ Tokyo Story (1953) (7/10)

TV/ X-Men '97: Ep. 2 - 3 (7/10)

Article/ How working memory could give rise to consciousness (6/10)

Podcast/ The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu (5/10)